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Polls: Tea Party and GOP Align Politically
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver Spit on
Recent polls [Harris Poll and Quinnipiac] show empirically what is abundantally clear: Not a dime’s bit of difference between the Tea Party and the GOP.
Actually, the white partiers may wish to consider a patch-over with the white power group, Stormfront: Your kind of people.
No gays. No blacks. No Latinos.
Just real Americans, working-class folk, the Traditional god-fearing white backbone of this country who want it back from the black guy who stole it.
Little Difference Between Tea Party and Grand Old Party
Polling evidence indicates tea partiers are just conservative Republicans by another name
By David JarmanWith Saturday’s much-publicized rally in Searchlight, Nevada, there is lots of talk about the effect that the tea party movement could have on this November’s elections.
But several polls released this week suggest that the only thing new about the tea party movement might be its name – and that the tea partiers themselves are simply the loudest, most revved-up subset of Republicans.
Quinnipiac’s March 24 survey found that, contrary to the notion that they’re a newly mobilized force of previously apolitical independents, tea party supporters represent the right-most flank of the Republican core. Tea partiers, who made up 13 percent of Quinnipiac’s nationwide sample, approved of the Republican Party by a 60 to 20 percent margin; among independents, by contrast, the GOP’s approval was 28-42 percent.
74 percent of tea partiers identified as Republicans or Republican-leaning independents, while only 16 percent said they were Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents. Only 15 percent voted for Barack Obama, while 77 percent went for John McCain (suggesting little of the allegedly rampant “buyer’s remorse”). And while Sarah Palin has an upside-down favorable rating (33-51 percent) among all voters, tea partiers view her favorably by a 72-14 percent spread.
The activation of this die-hard base is what’s helping the Republicans gain an edge in voter intensity going into the midterm election. But there are a few races where there’ll be viable third-party candidate with tea party ties on the ballot – and in these cases, that intensity could spell disaster for the GOP. Quinnipiac finds that the GOP leads the generic House ballot (which asks which party one plans to vote for in November’s congressional elections) 44-39 percent; but when a tea party option is included, the Democrats gain a 36-25 percent edge over the GOP, with the tea party option at 15 percent.
The same dynamic is evident in a March 25 Harris Poll, which looked at a hypothetical 2012 election. It found Barack Obama would defeat Mitt Romney 46-39 percent, but in a three-way race between Obama, Romney, and Sarah Palin as a tea party candidate, it turns into a 45-24-18 percent rout for Obama. The pattern is the same: the Democratic share stays almost the same, while the GOP vote is splintered by the presence of an even more conservative alternative.
In other words, the tea party movement could be as much a curse for the GOP as a blessing.
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Posted by Yanira Farray on Mar 28 2010, With 0 Reads, Filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Here we go again, Mike: Maybe it’s just Houston, but the Tea Party folks down here consist of Americans of every color. ethnic background, sex and political persuasion. Maybe it’s because H-town is truly a cosmopolitan place to live. But I can almost guarantee you that the MSM will never publicize that.
Personally, I’ve never attended a Tea Party event, but more power to them. Getting Americans of every persuasion riled up and excited is good for our country. It’s about time they get away from the boob tubes and pay attention before the country is lost.
Keep writing Michael — T.
There were blacks, hispanics and representatives of gay people in the crowd as CNN, for example, did not pan the crowd as there were a hell of alot of more people than reported. My brother has an inter racial marriage and his wife went with a few friends and she said there were many African Americans. This is a good example how the left coast or left wing media covers events not in their favor or not productive for Obama. Perhaps Obama will get in again but their will be many of his liberal allies that will not. Good points Tom!
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